Dad, from Dukinfield, delivers baby on bathroom floor

A proud dad proved he was a hands-on father when he delivered his son on the bathroom floor. John Parkinson was at home with partner Claire Corbett when baby Oliver decided to make his entrance almost two weeks early.

John Parkinson was at home with partner Claire Corbett when baby Oliver decided to make his entrance almost two weeks early.

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A proud dad proved he was a hands-on father when he delivered his son on the bathroom floor.

John Parkinson was at home with partner Claire Corbett when baby Oliver decided to make his entrance almost two weeks early.

With time running out, the window fabricator was forced to act as midwife – with a little help from the ambulance service.

John, 36, said: “I was all flustered because I’d never been in that situation before, it was a case of having to do it because there was no one else there.

“I made her as comfy as I could. I had my phone on loudspeaker with the ambulance man talking me through it.

“I just managed to wrap him up in a towel and tell her it was a boy and then the paramedics were at the door and they took over from there.

“You don’t ever believe it’s going to happen to you but I am overwhelmed, I’m just so happy.

“We didn’t know what we were having and I was hoping for a boy. I was in floods of tears when he came.”

The couple, who also have a three-year-old daughter, Elise, had been at Tameside Hospital earlier that day but went home to their house on Wells Court, Dukinfield, as medics believed it would be hours before Claire gave birth. But Oliver arrived unexpectedly, weighing 7lbs 3oz.

Claire, 27, who works as a nurse at the hospital, said: “It just came on all of a sudden. There was no way I could have made it back to the hospital, I would have had him in the car.

“I headed for the bathroom, I don’t know why. I think I was in shock. But John was really good, he stayed calm for us both.”